Friday 8 February 2008

Romanian President Basescu officially condemns Ribbentrop-Molotov pact


(Initially published in http://www.romania-report.ro/ - Jun 29, 2005; Romanian Presidency release)



Bucharest, June 29, 2005 -- The Presidential 'Cotroceni Palace' – Romania's President Traian Basescu firmly condemned the Soviet-German 'nonaggression pact', which led to the invasion and annexation of Romanian provinces of Bassarabia and North Bukovina by Russian troops 65 years ago, on June 28.


According to a Presidency press release, Romania's Basescu cannot ignore the sufferings of "our brothers across the Prut River following these resentful historical facts."


The message also reads: "Romanian President expresses his respectful veneration for those people who had to learn to live in torment by being separated from their families and by tragically being alienated from their mother tongue and nation."



According to a Romanian Presidency press release

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